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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1880)
'$ U. -- . L F r ny"??T!!?sffIw,-rT??r7..-, , .i , j i ww i"-- flflM nwiii"! ' -l r A M.t.iii ijJU-H'UJt !"!!- UNCOI.H. HKBKA8KA Hesperian Student UvVirEMlSITX OF WEnilnlSK.il, or,. IX. Lincoln, Nku., DkomMbeii 1, 1880. No. 14 110TI2L.S. JOSKIUI OI'KLT, rnop Lato of tho MARSH HOUSE, HitowNviLiE, Neb. gincoht b, Commercial Hotel. Cor 11 nnd P Sts. LINCOLN, - - - NE1JRASKA. J, .. IMIIOFF, Prop. Good &a.vi'x,vKo(f.vff Qj?FjraTft'oaift Turkish, Russian, mid Suit Water Baths in the Hotel. Rheuma tism cured by Turkish Baths. E. HAL LET, Watchmaker, and Jeweler, 5 Jsi, P Kitcrnrn, O St., but. 10th and 11th, south hIHo. LINCOLN, NKH. Conservatory of ITusic Established ly authority ami under the sanction of the Board oJ'Kcgcnts. Instruction given in ft thorough and systematic manner in all departments of 'MiiFic. Tuition raJiRlnn from $0.00 815.00 por tornit gjta?-TUc Vocal Elementary Class Is fjiek to all S. B. HOHMANN, Director A.M. DAVIS, Wholennlt anil Itrlail Healer In OU-GlolliH, MrtttInrn,KK IMuts, "Wall Paper, Window Shades, Lnco Curtains, Damask. &c, ADAPTED F1WM PALADIL1IE. The vii8o In which thin llowcr was dying, By n lady's fun was shattered. The blow scarce sot tho loaves a-flylnji, Nor scarce the slightest echo started. Hut the Haw ho lightly given, Destroyed the crystal day by day, And tho vase at last was riven, No less surely fronf delay. Drop by drop has flown the water, The frauranco of Iho llowcr Is gone; No one now can doubt tho matter 'TIs broken, touch It not, but mourn. TIs thus the band ono loves, if caroless, May wound the heart which chciishcs. Through all tho heart tho bread will pass, The flower of love soon perishes. To all tho world it seems unhurt, lly it alone its pain 1h borne. Uh wound so lino, profound, is wept. 'Tis broken, touch it not but mourn. A FAULT OF TODAY. Xui No. 23 East.O St, - " i y Linouljj, Neu. HE nineteenth century is an era of progression. Science, literature, art, and civilization in gonoinl are mak ing gigantic sti ides, whoso benefits will be felt throughout the future. But still there is room for improvement. Even yet vi cannot conlenledjy fold our.. hands and say to every one who suggests a reform "You arc bu'.a chronic grumbler; iho world is good enough." For this is not truo and among the many remaining faults is one in particular that ought to he and can be remedied. Just now the world tends toward a pe. collar kiiul of cynicism. It is no longer fashionahle to be enthusiastic. So extrav agant an expenditure ot feeling is styled fanaticism ; and he who presumes to fol low any object with y.oul rather than lan guid self satisfied stolidity is stigmatized by such often. limes overdrawn titles as "ranter", "hobby rider", or "monomani. no". From tho minister, who, in bursts ol burning eloquence, tries to fasten the alien- lion ol his congregation on the great truths of his religion, to the impulsive young lady who "gushes" over some striking novelty, all, who have been unwary enough to allow any sign ot natural feel ing to escape them, have come under reproach. In consequence we sec congre gations put to sleep, Sunday after Sunday, under tho soothing influence of sermons from which all animation, in thought or delivery, has been cu refill ly excluded. And the average young lady, now, is able to view the most famous or beautiful scenes, or to hear the most startling disclos tiros, wilh no greater show of interest Hum a calm "Ah?" or a demure and complacent "Oh!" Disappointed and unsuccessful men soured by their own failures, seem to take delight in making everyone else like themselves listless, bla.it and misanthropic Judg. lug from personal experience, they le ich that every well-appearing word or action springs from a hidden, interested and un worthy motive. Thus many an earnest do aire ami well-meant endeavor to be or do what is intrinsically right, is robbed of its usefulness or prevented altogether by thos'h sneering misjudgers of mankind. The young man of tu-dny is expected to show a decided interest in nothing, and to go through life a confirmed cynic. On his first real entrance into tho great, out. side world, wliile still possessed of all the freshness and trustfulness of youth, he sees disbelief and ridicule concerning things, which in his heretofore impiici faith in "tin; good, the true, and the beauti ful" ho never dreamed of doubling. Viewing, at first with surprise and llnulh wilh blller disappointment, the morose ness, tho suspicion, tho hypocrisy, the toadyism around him what wonder if his confidence in humanity is entirely destroyed by the awakening shock, and, through the seeming preponderance of Iho bud, ho loses sight of the good that really does exist? Unless he is exception ally fortunate, a few years contact with this soured element of society contain luutoshlm with its skepticism, and in ducts him to believe his fellow-men worso than tlioy actually are. lie regards mankind as his common enemy, and life us a selfish struggle for existence, where in place is obtained only by policy and trickery. His early high aspirations and noble motives aio now disdainfully smiled at as being "youthful enthusiasm," which he congratulates himself on having outgrown. To his "awakened" eyes, truth, purity and honor are but compnra live virtues; love, justice and patriotism are rhetorical but meaningless express ions, while the old-fashioned, devoted friendship of Damon and Pythias is sneered at as impossible. What wore formerly vices, too, are now spoken of in moderate and polysyllabic terms. Theft is "defalcation" or "mis appropriation;" a lie is "prevarjeation;" treason is "disaffection;" a broken pledge contained a "mental reservation." We arc not believers in the superiority of the "good old times" over those of to day; but the fault hero alluded to is cer tahilv a retrogressive step, not in keeping without' advance in civilization, and we might with profit imitate- our forefathers more in this respect. Tho reined' is practical and requires no extremes. Let a higher standard of morality and of leoling bo substituted for hypocritical cant and indolent vacuity; call crimes by their right names; prove that there all 1 1 exist some things really noble, pure nnd true; that life is always "worth living" If wo but make it so; and there will come forth a generation of honorable, earnest, whole-souled men, who will not hesitate to bo outspoken, and even enthusiastic, in the expression of their convictions and tho performance of their life's work. '82. There has recently been established a new association under the name of Socie ty kou Political Education, non-partisan in its character and, in tho best sense, national in its scope. Tho Society is to he managed by an Executive Committee of twenty live meinlajrs selected from dif ferent sections of Hie United Slates, many of them being experts in different depart ments of the study of social ami political science. A singular feature of its organ! ntion is that it has no president, nndlhus avoids the risk of having its aims confoun ded with the idiosyncrasies of any individ ual chosen for its head. The correspond eneo of tho Society is to be divided among live Socreiari'-s, one ench for the East, in cluding the Middle Sialcs.tho North-west, the South-east. ilieSoulh-.west(and thePti ciflc slope. Its Executive Committee which is not yet filled up, now comprises I'rol. W. G. Sumner, ol W.le College, Now Haven ; Hon. David A. Wells, ol Norwich, Conn; Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Bos ton, Mn-s.; Geo. S. Coo, Horace While, Geo-Haven Putnam, ii. 11. Howker E. M. Sliepard and It. L. Dugdale, of New York city; Franklin Mac Veagh and M.L.Scud der, Jr. . of Chicago, III. ; Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Kiehinond, Vn. : lion. John 11. Ames, of Lincoln, Nebraska: A. Sid ney Biddle, of Philadelphia, Pa. ; Al. Mitchell, of New Orleans, La. ; Geo. Ma son, of Galveston, Texas; and Peter Hamil ton, of Mobile, Ala. Tho Society bus selected a course of read ing lor the first ear, NonlholPs "Politics for Young Americans, 'Prof. Perry's "In tr duelion to Political Economy," John son's "History of American Politics," and MoAdam's "Alphabet in Finance." These volumes will he issued in a cheap edition, costing only sgU-OO. specially published lor the Society as a Library of Political Eilxi cntion, boxed In seis wilh unilorm bind in?, and hearing the name of the Society on the cover. G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York, and Johnson, MeClurg& Co , of Chicago, will bo the publishing agents. Nixt .year another set ol books will bo so lected, mid it is planned to extend I lie Li brary gradually accoiding to tho growth of the Society, until alien ion shall have been given lo the whole ninge of subjects comprised u.idirS iclal Science. In ad dition to the Library a series ot tracts tiro to be published on economic and polit'cal subjects, including among iho earlier ones: "What is a Bank?" by Edward Atkinson, of Boston: and Turgot's celebrated essay "On the Creation and Distribution of Weal Hi." This latter work by the great finance minister of Louis XVI, although first published in 1700, and acknowledged lo bo one of the finest couliibulious ever made to economic literature, has never been published in the United States, and, so far as known, only onco translated and published in tho English language, and then most imperfectly, in a pamphlet, which appeared in Loudon at the com mencement of tho present century. Theio are two classes of membership; Active and Cooperating. Active mum. hers tiro such persons as will pledge thorn selvs to read the books loooinor.did by the Society for tho official year and included in its Library of Political Education. and will pay an annual fee ol 51) cents (which may ho forwarded In postago stamps). Any person may become a Coop erating member on lite annual payment of 5.00 or more, which shall entitle such member to receive all tho racls published by tho Society. There tiro no other con ditions or obligations of membership. i'ho number of tracts to be published an nually will depend chiefly on the amount of subscriptions received. It is also desir ed to establish a fund for furthering the general work of Iho Society, and for tacll italing tho placing of tho above books and kindred literature in nubile and school li. braries. Aft- , ', ' :!((, If ' V i. -VJ mm v-oy y Mtii FU
